Table 20BRIDGEPORT: SUMMARY STATISTICS, 1910-1990
| Statistic |
1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 |
1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
| 1. TTL
POP | 34062 | 60443 | 53553 | 49109 |
46070 | 41560 | 35167 | 30923 | 29877 |
| 2. % FOR
BRN | -- | 35.9 | 28.7 | 22.1 | 16.6 |
12.9 | 9.6 | 14.5 | 24 |
| 3. % F/M
PRN | -- | 49.2 | 49.7 | -- |
-- | 29.8 | 27.8 | 27.6a | 22.6a |
| 4. % 1/2
ETH | -- | 85.1 | 78.4 | -- |
-- | 42.8 | 37.4 | -- | -- |
| 5. DWELLS
b | -- | -- | 12254 | 13618 |
13469 | 12314 | 12308 | 12288 | 11975 |
| 6. % OWN OCC | -- | -- | 33.4b | 28.5 |
31.9 | 32.8 | 34.2 | 36.2 | 39 |
| 7. % RENT OCC | -- | -- | 66.5b | 67.1 |
66.4 | 62.6 | 59.6 | 56.1 | 52 |
| 8. % VACANT | -- | -- | 9.7 | 4.4 |
1.7 | 4.6 | 6.2 | 7.7 | 9 |
| 9.
HHOLDS | -- | 13499 | 12531 | 13032 |
13257 | 12708 | 11543 | 11377 | 10791 |
| 10. P/HHOLD | -- | 4.5c | 4.3c | 3.76 |
3.45 | 3.25 | 3.0d | 2.7 | 2.8 |
| 11. MD
AGE | -- | -- | 24.6e | 27.7 |
30.7 | 30.8 | -- | -- | -- |
| 12. MD YRS ED | -- | -- | -- | 7.5 |
8.5 | 8.8 | 9.7 | 11.0 | f |
| 13. $ MED
INC | -- | -- | -- | 1002g |
3790 | 5622 | 9823 | 18999 | 30275 |
| 14. % WHT
COLL | -- | -- | -- | 4.8h |
8.7h | 8.3h | 13.9 | 47.3 | 49 |
| 15. % GVT WKS | -- | -- | -- | -- |
6.2 | 7.2 | 12.2 | 14.5 | 12.4 |
| 16. UNEMP | -- | -- | -- | 16.7 |
5.6 | 6.1 | 4.8 | 8.9i | 9i |
| 17. % DRIVE | -- | -- | -- | -- |
-- | 42.2 | 49.7 | 56.7 | 66 |
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Notes:
-- Not available or otherwise omitted.
a. Reported as multi-ethnic for 1980 and 1990.
b. These figures for 1930 are 1934 figures.
c. Total population per total household.
d. 1970 Data Book reports 3.4 pers/hhld. and 15231 total population.
e. Listed as 24.1 in the 1940 Fact Book.
f. Listed as 26% post high school education; no median given.
g. Omits 20 cases of income over $5000.
h. Approximated from managerial and professional occupations.
i. Listed as percent of civilian work force.
Expansion of category abbreviations:
1. Total Population. 2. % foreign born.
3. % (of total pop.) foreign or mixed parentage.
4. % (of total pop.) first and second generation ethnics.
5. Total number of dwelling units.
6. % owner occupied. 7. % renter occupied.
8. % vacant (cats. 6-8 are percent of total dwellings).
9. Households. 10. Persons per household.
11. Median age. 12. Median years of educ. (adults).
13. Median income. 14. % white collar occupation.
15. % government workers. 16. % of labor force unemployed.
17. % who reach work by auto (cats. 14-17 are % of labor force).
Source: Works Project Administration, Housing in Chicago Communities, vol.
60 (1940); Local Community Fact Books, Chicago (1930-1990); and Community
Data Book for the City of Chicago (1970). See bibliography for publication
information.